Stills from video from a deer cam, taken near Nixon Dec. 29, 2012. Mutual UFO Network says the triangular lights might be signs of a UFO.

Stills from video from a deer cam, taken near Nixon Dec. 29, 2012. Mutual UFO Network says the triangular lights might be signs of a UFO.

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Stills from video from a deer cam, taken near Nixon Dec. 29, 2012. Mutual UFO Network says the triangular lights might be signs of a UFO.

Stills from video from a deer cam, taken near Nixon Dec. 29, 2012. Mutual UFO Network says the triangular lights might be signs of a UFO.

Photo: Courtesy Photo

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Stills from video from a deer cam, taken near Nixon Dec. 29, 2012. Mutual UFO Network says the triangular lights might be signs of a UFO.

Stills from video from a deer cam, taken near Nixon Dec. 29, 2012. Mutual UFO Network says the triangular lights might be signs of a UFO.

Photo: Courtesy Photo

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This image that appeared on YouTube and was posted to the Mutual UFO Network website purportedly shows a UFO.

This image that appeared on YouTube and was posted to the Mutual UFO Network website purportedly shows a UFO.

Photo: YouTube Photo, Mutual UFO Network

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This screen grab of lights in the sky was taken from a cellphone video made in La Salle County by oil worker Xavier Garza.

This screen grab of lights in the sky was taken from a cellphone video made in La Salle County by oil worker Xavier Garza.

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Maybe the little green men want deer corn

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For decades, politicians and law enforcement officials have expressed concern that South Texas is under constant attack.

None of them, however, suspected the invaders would be spaceships.

Two weeks after a series of UFO sightings over the Eagle Ford Shale, more weird stuff is going on in the sky between San Antonio and the Rio Grande.

Three digital images taken Dec. 29 by an unattended wildlife camera on a deer lease near Nixon appear to show a series of anomalies in the sky and near the ground, says Fletcher Gray, deputy investigator with the Strike Team Area Research (STAR) unit of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

The privately run group released the photos this week.

Game cameras sit dormant and are only activated by a motion sensor, which means some form of wildlife — typically a deer — is in the camera's vicinity.

The first photo, time stamped 6:31 a.m., shows no deer in sight, but a triangle of lights can be seen in the night sky beyond the trees.

Roughnecks near Artesia Wells saw orange lights dancing and streaking across the night sky last fall and posted a jittery video of it to YouTube. A rancher in the vicinity reported seeing the same lights in the same part of the sky. Those reports aren't on MUFON's investigative radar.

Another report out of LaSalle County, however, has been debunked by continuing MUFON analysis. The group's conclusion is that lights seen near an oil well probably were from a lowboy trailer, which is a semi-trailer used to haul vehicles or large containers.

In that case, the July 5 a black-and-white photo appeared to show a disc with an array of lights hovering above the ground and about 70 feet from the camera. The well's owners, Gray said, had installed security cameras because of previous oil thefts.

That photo taken at the well site hadn't been altered either, Gray said, but a third analysis showed telltale white lines stretching from light to light.

In the opinion of MUFON experts, that indicated a trailer was moving quickly across the camera's field of vision. As the camera snapped a slow shutter-speed image, the trailer's safety lights were captured multiple times streaking across the photo.

In addition, MUFON hasn't been able to reach the original witness or to see the original photos.